ESCANABA, MI-- Authorities have not yet released the name of a suspect who led police on a chase through Delta, Dickinson, and Menominee counties last week.
Friday around 9:45 p.m. officers from Escanaba Public Safety responded to a report of a vehicle stolen from the 800 block of North Lincoln Road. About four-and-a-half hours later the vehicle was sighted by Norway Police, who tried to make a traffic stop. The driver sped off and led police on a chase through three counties. The chase ended when the vehicle crashed at the intersection of US-2 and M-69 in Delta County.
An 18-year-old man was arrested on a charge of unlawfully driving away an automobile. He remains lodged in the Delta County Jail on a $75,000 bond, pending arraignment.